Nano-Structures for Optics and Photonics: Optical Strategies for Enhancing Sensing, Imaging, Communication and Energy Conversion (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics)

The Contributions In This Volume Were Presented At A Nato Advanced Study Institute Held In Erice, Italy, 4-19 July 2013. Many Aspects Of Important Research Into Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, Semiconductor Materials And Devices, Instrumentation For Bio Sensing To Name Just A Few, Are Covered In Depth In This Volume. The Growing Connection Between Optics And Electronics, Due To The Increasing Important Role Plaid By Semiconductor Materials And Devices, Find Their Expression In The Term Photonics, Which Also Reflects The Importance Of The Photon Aspect Of Light In The Description Of The Performance Of Several Optical Systems. Nano-structures Have Unique Capabilities That Allow The Enhanced Performance Of Processes Of Interest In Optical And Photonic Devices. In Particular These Structures Permit The Nanoscale Manipulation Of Photons, Electrons And Atoms; They Represent A Very Hot Topic Of Research And Are Relevant To Many Devices And Applications. The Various Subjects Bridge Over The Disciplines Of Physics, Biology And Chemistry, Making This Volume Of Interest To People Working In These Fields. The Emphasis Is On The Principles Behind Each Technique And On Examining The Full Potential Of Each Technique. Part I Lectures -- Nanoplasmonics: Fundamentals And Applications -- Transformation Optics -- Localized Light-matter Interactions With Optical Antennas -- Biosensing Instrumentation -- Ultrafast Photonics With Microstructures Fibers -- Prospects Of Molecular Scale Logic Gates And Logic Circuits -- Tunability Of Plasmonic Devices -- Novel Plasmonic Probes And Smart Superhydrophobic Devices, New Tools For Forthcoming Spectroscopies At The Nanoscale -- Narrow-linewidth Lasers On A Silicon Chip -- Integrated Optomechanics: Opportunities For Tunable Nanophotonic Devices -- Fluorescence-based Studies Of Nanoparticles -- Incandescent Lamp-like White-light Emission From Doped And Undoped Oxide Nanopowders -- An Approach In The Structural And Spectroscopic Analysis Of Yb3+-doped Yag Nano-ceramics By Conjugation Of Tem-edx And Optical Techniques -- Taking Microcavity Label-free Single Molecule Detection Deep Into The Protein Realm --^ Fluorescence And Raman Scattering In Plasmonic Nano-structures: From Basic Science To Applications -- Principles And Applications Of Rare Earth Ion-doped Nanoparticles -- Nanostructures In The Terahertz Range -- Nanomaterials For Lighting And Solar Energy Conversion -- Part Ii Interdisciplinary Lecture -- The Discovery Of The Higgs Particle -- Part Iii Short Seminars -- Chemical And Strain Engineering Of Functional Oxides -- Gold Photonic Crystals And Photonics Quasi-crystals For Reproducible Surface-enhanced Raman Substrates -- Mid-infrared Surface Plasmon Polariton Sensors Resonant With The Vibrational Modes Of Phospholipid Layers -- Structural And Spectroscopic Properties Of Er3+:cdnb2o6 Phosphors -- Antibody Anchoring On Qcm Gold Surfaces By Uv Based Strategy -- Spectroscopic Properties Of New Cubic Tungstates Doped With Eu3+ And Yb3+ Ions -- The Role Of Surface Plasmon Resonance In Enhanced Transmission Through Metallic Gratings --^ Experimental Observation Of Self-organized Nanostructures In Layered Crystals -- Nano-structuring For Molecular Motor Control -- Fingerprint Imaging Enhancement By Deposition Of Columnar Thin Films Nanostructures -- Analytic Solution Of The Rabi Model -- Microscroll Invisibility Cloak -- The Identification Of The Inorganic Pigments In The Cultural Heritage Objects Using Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering -- Polymeric Microresonators For Biosensing Applications -- On The Possibility Of Indicating Protein Conformational Changes Via Energy Transfer Between Intrinsic Fluorophores -- Part Iv Posters -- Surface Plasmons And Strong Light-matter Coupling In Metallic Nanoshells -- Photoluminescence And Electroluminescence Characterization Of A-si:h/c-ci Interfaces -- Structural, Optoelectronic And Electrical Properties Of Gaas Microcrystals Grown From (001) Si Nano-areas -- Plasmonic Sensors For Aromatic Hydrocarbon Detection -- Optical Annealing Of Black Silicon --^ Strongly Confined Gap Plasmon Modes In Graphene Sandwiches And Graphene-on-silicon -- Investigation Of Polarized Light Emitting Diode -- Linking Optical Properties And Nanostructure Of Nicrox Cermet Nanocomposite For Solar Thermal Application -- Ultrafast Active Control Of Plasmonic Resonances At Thz Frequencies -- An Eigenvector Expansion Method For Localized Plasmon Modes: Application To Extinction And Electron Energy Loss Spectra Of Isolated And Coupled Metallic Nanoparticles -- Characterisations Of New Nd3+-doped Scheelite-type Molybdates For Laser Materials -- Cluster Implantation And Deposition Apparatus: Design And Capabilities -- Roles Of Surface Pattern Morphology And Sunlight Incoherence On Solar Cell Optimization -- Processing And Characterization Of Nanowire Arrays For Photodetectors -- Structural Analysis Of Ge-ga-se/s-cscl Glasses And Glass-ceramics For Application In Chalcogenide And Chalcohalide Photonics --^ Regularities In Holographic Formation Of Periodic Structures In The System Polymer-metal Nanoparticles -- Modeling The Effect Of Different Dimensions In High Contrast Grating Mirror -- Inas/gaas Quantum Dots Covered By Graded Gaassb Strain Reducing Layer -- Compact Wavelength- And Pulse-duration-tunable Ultrafast Laser System For Coherent Raman Microscopy -- Random Lasing In Znse And Cdse Semiconductor Powders -- Design Of An Ultra-broadband Super Absorbing Plasmonic Metamaterials -- High-order Harmonic Generation And Plasmonics -- Low Dispersion Propagation Of Broad-band Thz Pulses In A Two-wire Waveguide -- Femtosecond Lase Micromachining Of A-si:h -- Low-level Monoclinic Content Detection In Zirconia Implants Using Raman Spectroscopy -- Modeling Additive Color Effect In Natural Photonic Polycrystals Using The Layer Homogenization Method: The Case Of The Diamond Weevil --^ Transformation Of Optical Properties For Gamma-irradiated Lithium Fluoride Crystals Under Transition From Bulk To Nanocrystals -- Characterization Of Polyethylene Glycol Self-assembled Monolayers By Means Of Sum-frequency Generation Spectroscopy For Biosensor Applications -- Inas Quantum Dots Covered By Gaassb Strain Reducing Layer -- Maximizing Intensity In Tio2 Waveguides For Nonlinear Optics -- An Improved Method For T-matrix Calculations Of Light Scattering By Spheroidal Particles -- Automated Algorithms For Multilayer Thin Film Filter Design Using Metamaterials -- Surface Charge Effects On The Interaction Between A Solid-supported Model Lipid Membrane And Aunps Studied By Sfg Spectroscopy -- Photoluminescence Of Colour Centres In Thermally-evaporated Lif Films For Radiation Imaging Detectors -- P3ht:pcbm Based Organic Solar Cells: Structure Optimization And Improving External Quantum Efficiency By Plasmonic Nanoparticles Incorporation --^ Optical Properties Nanocomposite Composed Of Ag Nanoparticles Embedded In A Dlc Film -- Part V List Of Participants. Edited By Baldassare Di Bartolo, John Collins, Luciano Silvestri. Front Matter....Pages i-xxxvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Nanoplasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications....Pages 3-102 Transformation Optics....Pages 103-108 Localized Light-Matter Interactions with Optical Antennas....Pages 109-129 Biosensing Instrumentation....Pages 131-152 Ultrafast Photonics with Microstructures Fibers....Pages 153-165 Prospects of Molecular Scale Logic Gates and Logic Circuits....Pages 167-186 Tunability of Plasmonic Devices....Pages 187-207 Novel Plasmonic Probes and Smart Superhydrophobic Devices, New Tools for Forthcoming Spectroscopies at the Nanoscale....Pages 209-235 Narrow-Linewidth Lasers on a Silicon Chip....Pages 237-248 Integrated Optomechanics: Opportunities for Tunable Nanophotonic Devices....Pages 249-256 Fluorescence-Based Studies of Nanoparticles....Pages 257-272 Incandescent Lamp-Like White-Light Emission from Doped and Undoped Oxide Nanopowders....Pages 273-284 An Approach in the Structural and Spectroscopic Analysis of Yb 3+ -Doped YAG Nano-ceramics by Conjugation of TEM-EDX and Optical Techniques....Pages 285-307 Taking Microcavity Label-Free Single Molecule Detection Deep into the Protein Realm: Cancer Marker Detection at the Ultimate Sensitivity....Pages 309-322 Fluorescence and Raman Scattering in Plasmonic Nano-structures: From Basic Science to Applications....Pages 323-338 Principles and Applications of Rare Earth Ion-Doped Nanoparticles....Pages 339-357 Nanostructures in the Terahertz Range....Pages 359-372 Nanomaterials for Lighting and Solar Energy Conversion....Pages 373-414 Front Matter....Pages 415-415 The Discovery of the Higgs Particle....Pages 417-432 Front Matter....Pages 433-433 Chemical and Strain Engineering of Functional Oxides....Pages 435-436 Front Matter....Pages 433-433 Gold Photonic Crystals and Photonics Quasi-crystals for Reproducible Surface-Enhanced Raman Substrates....Pages 437-438 Mid-infrared Surface Plasmon Polariton Sensors Resonant with the Vibrational Modes of Phospholipid Layers....Pages 439-441 Structural and Spectroscopic Properties of Er 3+ :CdNb 2 O 6 Phosphors....Pages 443-445 Antibody Anchoring on QCM Gold Surfaces by UV Based Strategy....Pages 447-448 Spectroscopic Properties of New Cubic Tungstates Doped with Eu 3+ and Yb 3+ Ions....Pages 449-450 The Role of Surface Plasmon Resonance in Enhanced Transmission Through Metallic Gratings....Pages 451-453 Experimental Observation of Self-Organized Nanostructures in Layered Crystals....Pages 455-457 Nano-structuring for Molecular Motor Control....Pages 459-459 Fingerprint Imaging Enhancement by Deposition of Columnar Thin Films Nanostructures....Pages 461-462 Analytic Solution of the Rabi model....Pages 463-464 Microscroll Invisibility Cloak....Pages 465-465 The Identification of the Inorganic Pigments in the Cultural Heritage Objects Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering....Pages 467-469 Polymeric Microresonators for Biosensing Applications....Pages 471-473 On the Possibility of Indicating Protein Conformational Changes via Energy Transfer Between Intrinsic Fluorophores....Pages 475-476 Front Matter....Pages 477-477 Surface Plasmons and Strong Light-Matter Coupling in Metallic Nanoshells....Pages 479-479 Photoluminescence and Electroluminescence Characterization of a-Si:H/c-Ci Interfaces....Pages 481-483 Structural, Optoelectronic and Electrical Properties of GaAs Microcrystals Grown from (001) Si Nano-areas....Pages 485-486 Plasmonic Sensors for Aromatic Hydrocarbon Detection....Pages 487-489 Optical Annealing of Black Silicon....Pages 491-491 Strongly Confined Gap Plasmon Modes in Graphene Sandwiches and Graphene-on-Silicon....Pages 493-494 Front Matter....Pages 477-477 Investigation of Polarized Light Emitting Diode....Pages 495-495 Linking Optical Properties and Nanostructure of NiCrOx Cermet Nanocomposite for Solar Thermal Application....Pages 497-497 Ultrafast Active Control of Plasmonic Resonances at THz Frequencies....Pages 499-500 An Eigenvector-Expansion Method for Localized Plasmon Modes: Application to Extinction and Electron Energy Loss Spectra of Isolated and Coupled Metallic Nanoparticles....Pages 501-502 Characterisations of New Nd 3+ -Doped Scheelite-Type Molybdates for Laser Materials....Pages 503-504 Cluster Implantation and Deposition Apparatus: Design and Capabilities....Pages 505-507 Roles of Surface Pattern Morphology and Sunlight Incoherence on Solar Cell Optimization....Pages 509-509 Processing and Characterization of Nanowire Arrays for Photodetectors....Pages 511-512 Structural Analysis of Ge-Ga-Se/S-CsCl Glasses and Glass-Ceramics for Application in Chalcogenide and Chalcohalide Photonics....Pages 513-514 Regularities in Holographic Formation of Periodic Structures in the System Polymer-Metal Nanoparticles....Pages 515-516 Modeling the Effect of Different Dimensions in High Contrast Grating Mirror....Pages 517-519 InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots Covered by Graded GaAsSb Strain Reducing Layer....Pages 521-522 Compact Wavelength- and Pulse-Duration-Tunable Ultrafast Laser System for Coherent Raman Microscopy....Pages 523-524 Random Lasing in ZnSe and CdSe Semiconductor Powders....Pages 525-526 Design of an Ultra-broadband Super Absorbing Plasmonic Metamaterials....Pages 527-529 High-Order Harmonic Generation and Plasmonics....Pages 531-531 Low Dispersion Propagation of Broad-Band THz Pulses in a Two-Wire Waveguide....Pages 533-535 Femtosecond Laser Micromachining of a-Si:H....Pages 537-538 Low-Level Monoclinic Content Detection in Zirconia Implants Using Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 539-540 Modeling Additive Color Effect in Natural Photonic Polycrystals Using the Layer Homogenization Method: The Case of the Diamond Weevil....Pages 541-542 Front Matter....Pages 477-477 Transformation of Optical Properties for Gamma-Irradiated Lithium Fluoride Crystals Under Transition from Bulk to Nanocrystals....Pages 543-544 Characterization of Polyethylene Glycol Self-Assembled Monolayers by Means of Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy for Biosensor Applications....Pages 545-546 InAs Quantum Dots Covered by GaAsSb Strain Reducing Layer....Pages 547-547 A Prediction Made When Playing with NeoCube ® Is Confirmed by Impurity Spectroscopy....Pages 549-550 Maximizing Intensity in TiO 2 Waveguides for Nonlinear Optics....Pages 551-552 An Improved Method for T-Matrix Calculations of Light Scattering by Spheroidal Particles....Pages 553-554 Automated Algorithms for Multilayer Thin Film Filter Design Using Metamaterials....Pages 555-555 Surface Charge Effects on the Interaction Between a Solid-Supported Model Lipid Membrane and AuNPs Studied by SFG Spectroscopy....Pages 557-558 Photoluminescence of Colour Centres in Thermally-Evaporated LiF Films for Radiation Imaging Detectors....Pages 559-560 P3HT:PCBM Based Organic Solar Cells: Structure Optimization and Improving External Quantum Efficiency by Plasmonic Nanoparticles Incorporation....Pages 561-563 Optical Properties Nanocomposite Composed of Ag Nanoparticles Embedded in a DLC Film....Pages 565-566 List of Participants....Pages 567-583 Back Matter....Pages 585-586 The contributions in this volume were presented at a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Erice, Italy, 4-19 July 2013. Many aspects of important research into nanophotonics, plasmonics, semiconductor materials and devices, instrumentation for bio sensing to name just a few, are covered in depth in this volume.℗l The growing connection between optics and electronics, due to the increasing important role plaid by semiconductor materials and devices, find their expression in the term photonics, which also reflects the importance of the photon aspect of light in the description of the performance of several optical systems. Nano-structures have unique capabilities that allow the enhanced performance of processes of interest in optical and photonic devices. In particular these structures permit the nanoscale manipulation of photons, electrons and atoms; they represent a very hot topic of research and are relevant to many devices and applications. The various subjects bridge over the disciplines of physics, biology and chemistry, making this volume of interest to people working in these fields. The emphasis is on the principles behind each technique and on examining the full potential of each technique